Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis